A Cut Up Paper Girl
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Elena Gray, Grade 11
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Poetry
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2011
Thick makeup becomes her mask
And sometimes they dare to ask
Did she paint her insides
Black and blue too?
But she lies.
Smashed plates cut her once pretty face.
The coffee is dripping down off the table
Staining the morning’s headlines:
“Wedding of the Year” – so black and white.
Her monster under the bed coming to life,
Can’t wake herself from this shadowy night.
Her little girl hasn’t done her homework
And has forgotten her hat again…
Once upon a time she was strong
She was a Valkyrie, walking the Halls they belong.
But now she is bound, like Michelangelo’s Slave.
Pandora’s Box has been thrown to the floor
And she hopes someday she will be loved once more.
When tears lead to tears
And wash her mask away
and blue flashing lights fill her street
then he knows that he is beaten
by the woman who said, “I love you”